I'm planning to rebuild my HTPC and have a measly budget (about £150 for the subsystem). As a result I assumed I was going to be restricted to a Sempron / Athlon LE processor and AM2, but research suggests that a Celeron 400, being a low power Conroe derivative, might be a good alternative (coupled with a cheap iG31 based board and probably a Radeon 4650). The system's mostly used for watching DVDs, but also gets tapped up for occasional gaming at the native 1280x768 of my monitor. So, my subsystem choices seem to be one of:
Sempron / Athlon LE + cheap (probably Nvidia) AM2 board + 4650
Sempron / Athlon LE + 780G board + 3450 Hybrid Crossfire
Celeron 400 + cheap (probably iG31) 775 board + 4650
Any thoughts? (other than "I'm an Intel fanboy get the Celeron" or "I'm an AMD fanboy get the Athlon")


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The impression I get is that the Celerons are good at CPU benchmarks but offer no advantage in real-world situations! I also forgot to mention that I'll need new memory on that subsystem as well, but 2GB of DDR2-800 is pretty much standard nowadays anyway 
